How We Built an AI Screenplay-to-Storyboard Pipeline in Go
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We built StoryBirdie — a tool that takes a screenplay file and turns it into a complete storyboard with shot lists, camera angles, and AI-generated frames. The entire backend is Go. This post covers why we chose Go, how we structured the pipeline, and the architecture decisions that worked out (and the ones that didn't). The Problem Directors write screenplays. Then they need storyboards — visual frame-by-frame plans showing what each camera shot looks like. Traditionally this means